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In the wake of the Registerfly.com fiasco ICANN anounced that they are going to use their powers and nuke RegFlys Accreditation.

RegisterFly have 2 weeks to solve the customer complaints issues or face termination.

ICANNs letter to them includes a comprehensive shopping list of complaints filed against Registerfly over the past two years and multiple failed attempts to get the company to meet its obligations.

Registerfly’s conduct has fallen far short of both its responsibilities to the public and its agreements. We therefore provide this formal notice of breach of Registerfly’s Registrar Accreditation Agreement with ICANN.

reports ICANN

900,000 domains currently cannot be managed, transferred or renewed - and over 20,000 domains has been lost already.

Yet another example of why “cheap” does not equal “best”

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Well, sadly after 12 happy years, and a couple of really bad ones since she went do-lally, my wife is divorcing me, on the grounds on “unreasonable behaviour”. The “unreasonable” bit being me not allowing her to go off with my children and the new boyfriend whilst continuing to spend money-like-water on my credit-cards.

So the marriage is over officially rather than just actually now. Nisi pronounced, Absolute coming unless I argue the case, I have grounds to, but why would I want to stay married for another 5 years to a woman who’d rather be with another bloke, who was a complete Tosser when I met him 20 years ago, and by all accounts hasn’t improved over the years. So far, to try and get a quick divorce and large financial settlement she’s tried… (more…)

Finally we get more than 75% of the old content transferred into our shiny new Etomite CMS based website. All PHP and friendly …

So in order to speed up the process of testing and tidyup we’ve put the new site live, and awaiting the flood of client complaints about the new templates and colour schemes.

In all seriousness we do actually read and appreciate peoples comments about the website and services, so any comments on the new style and content of www.Othellotech.NET would be much appreciated - just submit errors and suggestions into the support system at HostAssist.co.uk and the web mistress will read, decide appropriate action and process accordingly.

The remainder of the ordering and product functioanlity should be live by the end of February

Yes, internet marketers have finally been recognised as some of the dumbest people on the planet.

So in order to part a few more of them from their wallets, already largely emptied by the purchases of out-of-date SEO tricks and secrets and insider information which really condenses down to if you want to guarantee entry into a search engine, pay for it …

So, Google Announce Training Sessions on how to open an AdSense account.
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